William Hargrave wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 CH>> if i get a pc with 2 chips,  is it required for me to have nt
 CH>> 4, or is dual CPU supported by 95?
 MB> Neither Windows 95 nor its forthcoming upgrade, Windows 98, will
 MB> support multiple CPUs.  Windows NT 4 will, out of the box, support up
 MB> to four CPUs.
 WH> I take it you're talking about NT Server here?
 WH> NT Workstation only supports 2 processors - at least my copy 
 WH> does... 
I'm no NT expert, and I have trouble following all of the changes that are 
slipstreamed into it.  At the last Microsoft seminar I attended, which was 
about two months ago for the roll-out of the Small Business Server (NT Server 
bundled with a 25-user license for BackOffice and an integrated install), the 
statement was made that NT Server supports up to 8 CPUs out of the box.  A 
number of people questioned this, and the answer was something like, "Oops!  
I don't think you were supposed to know that yet."
I've never run NT on more than 2 CPUs, so I can't speak from personal 
experience.  The problem with more than 2 CPUs was that there was no vendor 
independent method for supporting them until very recently, so Microsoft 
required you to buy a supported build from the vendor making the motherboard. 
 ALR (now owned by Gateway) and NCR (now owned by whomever it is this week) 
have long made very large proprietary SMP builds of NT, up to 64 CPUs.
Anyway, there is now a vendor independent standard for up to 4 CPUs, and this 
is supposedly what NT supports by default.
 
-- Mike
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